2017 has been a bumper year for seeing technology utilized in new and exciting ways in cannabis growing. Earlier this year, cannabis industry advocate Michael “BigMike” Straumietis — and his hydroponics nutrients company Advanced Nutrients — threw his hat in the ring with the debut of his revolutionary BudLabs interactive marijuana app. Straumietis says the […]
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When it comes to Northern California’s prolific outdoor marijuana grower community, September and October represent big payoff months. And legendary seed breeder Subcool of TGA Genetics has been touring legal cannabis gardens as they ripen. Subcool is fortunate to live near the southern edge of NorCal’s famed Emerald Triangle weed-growing region, which comprises Mendocino, Humboldt […]
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In our first article in this series, we outlined the screen of green technique and its pros and cons. To recap, screen of green, or SCROG, was created by growers working with limited ground space and/or vertical height in their garden area. It’s useful for small spaces, and in situations when a grower can only […]
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Northern California’s outdoor marijuana growers cum hip-hop duo Mendo Dope are a living rebuke to the drug war claim that dope smokers are nothing but lazy, dumb, brain-addled, unproductive losers. Daniel and Bryan Eatmon, also known as Old E and Bleezy, are hardworking, cannabis-growing brothers who cultivate mega-yield outdoor marijuana plantations, crisscross the country playing […]
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As marijuana growers know, mites are bad news. They ruin marijuana crops, according to the Environmental Protection Agency they’re partially responsible for bee extinctions, they mutate fast to build resistance to poisons, there are nearly 50,000 species, and — here’s the biggest ick of them all — some even colonize human skin. When it comes […]
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It’s no secret that we at Big Buds are big advocates of screen of green marijuana growing, better known as SCROG. So far we’ve given you the pros and cons of SCROG, plus the tools you’ll need to DIY your own setup. We also talked about Texas company Scrogger’s game-changing aboveground portable structure. Now, let’s […]
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As is usual for me, I hit the great outdoors to grow marijuana in the open air this summer and give my indoor marijuana growing space and my air conditioners a well-deserved rest. It’s now mid-October, and in about two weeks I’ll be done harvesting and manicuring my outdoor crop. The weather’s getting cooler and […]
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As a marijuana grower and marijuana journalist, I frequently visit grow shops to study the hydroponics nutrients products they sell. While it’s true that almost any fertilizer will provide enough nutrition so marijuana plants can complete their life cycle, it’s also true that marijuana plants grow the fastest and produce the heaviest harvests, with the […]
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It can seem like a never-ending battle. In their bid to stop those nasty little grow-op invaders, a.k.a spider mites and russet mites, I know growers who’ve tried every anti-pest intervention known to our cannabis community. In past articles we’ve discussed the harmful use of agricultural poisons as growers go to war with insects that […]
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For many outdoor and indoor marijuana growers in our community, each year, soon after they’ve harvested, dried and cured another season of excellent buds, they traditionally throw fun and festive harvest parties. So what is a harvest party? Simply put, it’s a pot party focused on the harvested buds. It feels good to share what […]
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Marijuana strain selection is very personal. Unless you grow solely to sell, your top three criteria for what you grow is that you love the taste, scent and high. If you’re growing in a screen of green, or SCROG garden, you also want to select strains that can well handle that particular cultivation process, which […]
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In our ongoing series of articles on the screen of green marijuana growing technique, more commonly known as SCROG, we’ve seen that scrogging involves painstakingly pruning and bending plants in ways that temporarily damage and stress them out. Growers recognize that SCROG plants need quality nutrition delivered efficiently, plus bountiful amounts of horticultural lighting if […]
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Most marijuana strains we grow today are descendants of foundational landrace strains gathered by intrepid cannabis adventurers in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. Until the beginning of the 1990s marked the advent of accelerated hybrid cannabis breeding and a rapid increase in the number of breeders that accompanied marijuana cultivation legalization in North America, if […]
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To help you understand the context of the relentless paranoia of this article, let’s start with the reminder that until such time as marijuana is federally legal in the USA — and until nobody steals marijuana, money or grow equipment from a grower — a grow op is something you need to keep secret. If […]
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You might think that drooping leaves means that your plants are thirsty and aren’t getting enough water — but giving them more H2O might actually be doing more harm than good. Much like feeding, the right balance of watering volume and frequency is crucial for healthy plants, especially with young cannabis seedlings. While many growers […]
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There is no disputing that washed things are generally more pleasant than unwashed. A newly laundered T-shirt. A tidy house. A freshly brushed set of pearly whites. But scrubbing your marijuana buds? Is that even a thing? Corey Drumm is here to say, “Oh yeah, that is definitely a thing.” The Northern California grower explains, […]
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Fun fact: You can use a cannabis vaporizer to get many different psychoactive and aesthetic experiences from the same strain of marijuana. I’m stoked that I discovered how to use my vape in such a way and I want to share with you how you can experience the same fun, too! The first thing you […]
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If you’ve started growing marijuana in the past 10 years, chances are you’re growing strains that are vastly different to the foundational strains from which modern hybrids were bred. When hippies began leading the resurgence of cannabis culture in the West at the start of the 1960s, the few adventurers who gathered landrace strains sourced […]
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Among the landrace marijuana strains popularized in the 1980s, few are as famous as White Widow, the resinous lady known for her frosty buds and penetrating high. White Widow was the rock star of marijuana growing and selling in the 1990s, the same way strains like Blue Dream, Girl Scout Cookies and OG Kush are […]
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Northern California fires. Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Maria. Not to mention all the tropical storms and subsequent floods that hurt many marijuana growers this year alone. Heartbreaking numbers of grow ops were wiped out, and in some worst-case scenarios, growers even lost their homes and loved ones. These catastrophes have led growers to ask […]
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